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In Canada, physician assistants (PA) are a relatively new health provider group despite having a long history of involvement with the Canadian military and abroad. PAs are largely unregulated in Canada, with the exception of Manitoba and New Brunswick.
In two recent Conference Board reports, we detailed the role of PAs within health systems, reviewed the effectiveness literature on the impact of PAs, and provided an estimate of the value of increasing the use of PAs in Canada from a health system efficiency perspective.